As reported by i.pl, Feigin stated on Ukrainian television that Putin has two young sons with his longtime lover, gymnast Alina Kabaeva. The older "secret" son of the despot, Ivan, is currently 9 ...

Over the past 25 years, the world has bent to the vision of one man. In the course of a ... Resorting to the old KGB playbook, which Putin internalized as a young officer in the Soviet spy agency ...

When Putin announced, in 2011 ... Plus, military service opens up some of the more lucrative job prospects for a young man in Russia: work in the police or the Federal Security Service, or ...